Testimony Wraps Up In NO Burned Body Case

Prosecution Expected To Conclude Its Case Next Tuesday

UPDATED 3:33 AM CST Nov 20, 2010

NEW ORLEANS -

The testimony in the trial against five former and current New Orleans police officers accused of killing Henry Glover and burning his body in a car in Algiers has wrapped up in federal court on Friday.

Officer Purnella Simmons, a key witness in the trial, said she came across a woman claiming to be Glover's sister who said that her brother had been shot by police.

Simmons said after meeting the woman, she heard on the police radio that a man who had been shot showed up at Haban's Elementary School.

Simmons said she told Lt. Robert Italiano, one of the accused officers, that ?David Warren discharged his weapon on DeGaulle, this could be the same victim.?

The police officer said Italiano told her ?no, they were not related? and told her not to write a report.

?I did not write a report because I was told not to write a report,? Simmons said.

Simmons said she was finally asked to write a report on Dec. 2, 2005, about three months after the incident.

The court said the prosecution is expected to wrap up its case next Tuesday, then the trial will take a break for the Thanksgiving holiday and will resume the following Monday.

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